satisfying his creditors as to his personal disregard
of the use of money. He offered his resignation
in 1880, which was not accepted. He was, how
ever, given a coadjutor in the person of the Rt.
Rev. William Henry Elder (q.v.), bishop of
Natchez, and he retired to Brown county, Ohio,
where he spent the rest of his life. The Roman
Catholics in his diocese numbered more than
500,000, the priests 480, and the churches 500 at
his death. He published: Tlie Roman Clergy
and Free Thought (1870); Lectures and Pastoral
Letters; Diocesan Statutes, Acts and Decrees of
Three Provincial Councils held in Cincinnati, and
a series of school-books for parochial schools.
He died in Brown county, Ohio, July 4, 1883.
PURINTON, Daniel Boardman, educator, was
born in Preston county, Va., Feb. 15, 1850; son
of the Rev. Dr. Jesse M. and Nancy Alden
(Lyon) Purinton ; grandson of the Rev. Thomas
and Sabrina (Boardman) Purinton, and of Aaron
and Armilla (Alden) Lyon, and a descendant of
John Alden of the Mayflower. He prepared for
college at George s Creek academy, Pa., and was
graduated from the University of West Virginia
in 1873, where he was an instructor and professor,
1873-89, filling successively the chairs of logic,
mathematics and metaphysics. He was married,
July 6, 1876, to Florence A., daughter of Prof. F. S.
and Harriet (Johnson) Lyon of Morgantown,
W. Va. He was vice-president of the university
and served as acting president, 1881-83. In 1890
he entered upon his duties as president and pro
fessor of intellectual and moral philosophy in
Denison university, Granvjlle, Ohio, which in
cluded the presidency of Doane academy and
Shepardston college. In June, 1902, he accepted
the presidency of the West Virginia university.
He took the degree of Ph.D. from the University
of Nashville in 1891, and the honorary degree of
LL.D. from Deuison university in 1887. He is
the author of : Contest of the Frogs, an extended
poem (1888); Christian Theism : Its Claims and
Sanctions (1889); and a number of songs for
which he composed music.
PURINTON, George Dana, biologist, was born
in Preston county, Va., Oct. 1, 1856 ; son of the
Rev. J. M. and Nancy Alden (Lyon) Purinton ;
grandson of the Rev. Thomas Purinton, lawyer
and physician, of Coleraine, Mass., and subse-
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quently of Virginia, anil a maternal descendant
of John Aldeu of the Mayflower, George D. Pur-
inton received a liberal preparatory education ;
taught school in Virginia, and after serving as
principal of George s Creek academy, Pa., of the
Cherokee Male seminary and of the national high
school of the Cherokee Indians, Tahlequah, In
dian Territory, was graduated from the university
of Missouri. M.D., 1871, and from the West Vir
ginia university, A.B., 1879, A.M. 1880. In 1871
lie was married to Helen B. Fordyce of Morgan-
town, W. Va. He was co-proprietor and joint
president of Broadus college. W. Va. , 1879-80 :
was subsequently superintendent of the Piedmont
schools. W. Va. , but resigned to become vice-
president and professor of physical sciences and
natural history in the University of Des Moines,
Iowa, and was president of the university, 1881-
83. He was made professor of chemistry and
physics in Furman university, S.C., in 1882, at
the same time serving as analytical chemist and-
assayer to the trade and as official chemist to
various manufactories, and was subsequently
professor of chemistry and biology in Arkansas
Industrial university ; professor of chemistry,
and superintendent of agriculture, which latter
department he had founded. He was professor
of biology and director and curator of the museum
in the State University of Missouri, 1887-94. act
ing as organizer and director of the Agricultural
Experiment Station of Delaware, 1888. From
1894 till his death he practised medicine in St.
Louis. He received the honorary degree of Ph.D.
from the State University of West Virginia. He
is the author of : Systematic Descriptive Botany,
A Guide to the Botanical Laboratory ; Analytical
Chemistry and Plant Chemistry. He died at St.
Louis, Mo., March 27. 1897.
PURNELL, Thomas Richard, jurist, was born
in Wilmington, N.C., Aug. 10, 1846; son of
Thomas Richard and Eliza Ann (Dudley) Pur
nell ; grandson of John and Sarah Purnell and of
Gov. Edward B. and Elizabeth (Ruffin) Dudley ;
great-grandson of John Purnell (1st), who set
tled in North Carolina in 1780, and a descendant
of Christopher Dudley, John Hay wood, one of the
first settlers in Edgecomb county, N.C. (1675),
and Thomas Purnell, who came from England,
1634, and settled in Virginia or Maryland. He at
tended Hillsboro Military academy, and in 1864
served in the C. S. army as orderly to Gen. W.
H. C. Whitney at Wilmington, and in 1865 as
topographical engineer in the Army of Northern
Virginia with the rank of lieutenant. He was
paroled at Greensboro, N.C., May, 1865, and was
graduated at Trinity college, N.C., A.B., 1869,
A.M., 1872. He studied law under Col. Robert
Strange in Wilmington; was married, Nov. 11,
1870, to Adelia E., daughter of Dr. Alexander T.
and Lucinda B. (Blum) Zevely of Salem, N.C. ;
practised law in Baltimore, Md., 1870-71 ; Salem,
N.C., 1871-73 ; was state librarian at Raleigh,
1873-76 ; representative in the state legislature,
1876-77; state senator. 1883-84; Republican can
didate for presidential elector, 1884 and 1888 ;
candidate for attorney-general of the state, 1892 ;
for solicitor of the 4th judicial district, 1894;
was commissioner for the U.S. circuit court,
1877-97; practised law in Raleigh, 1876-97. and
on May 5, 1897, succeeded Augustus Seymour,
deceased, as U.S. district judge for the eastern
district of North Carolina.
PURVES, George Tybout, clergyman and
author, was born in Philadelphia, Pa.. Sept. 27,
1852 ; son of William and Anna (Kennedy) Purves.
He was graduated from the University of Penn
sylvania, A.B., 1872, A.M.. 1875. and at Princeton
Theological seminary in 1876. He was pastor of
the Presbyterian church at Wayne, Pa., 1877-80;
of the Boundary Avenue church, Baltimore. Md.,
1880-86 ; declined the chair of systematic theology
in McCormick Theological seminary, Chicago ;
the chair of church history in Princeton Theolo
gical seminary and the pastorate of the Collegiate
Reformed church in New York city in 1889 ; was
pastor of the First church, Pittsburg, Pa., 1886-
92 ; professor of New Testament literature and
Greek exegesis at Princeton Theological semin
ary, co-pastor of the First church, Princeton, and
preacher at Princeton university, 1892-1900, and
pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church,
New York city, as successor to the Rev. Dr. John
Hall, 1900-01. He received the degree D.D. from
Washington and Jefferson college in 1888, aiul
from the University of Pennsylvania and Prince
ton university in 1894, and LL.D. from Lafayette
college in 1895. He was married to Rebecca
Bird, daughter of E. M. Sellers of Philadelphia,
Pa., and at Dr. Purves s death in 1901 she was
left with one son and six daughters. He is the
author of : TJie Testimony of Justin Martyr to
Early Christianity (1888); Christianity in tlie
Apostolic Age (1900), and sermons and numerous
articles on New Testament themes. He died in
New York city, Sept. 24, 1901.
PURVIANCE, Hugh Young, naval officer, was
born in Baltimore, Md., March 22, 1799. He at
tended St. Mary s college, Baltimore, and on Nov.
3, 1818, was warranted midshipman in the U.S.
navy. His midshipman service was on the frig
ates Congress and Franklin of the Pacific squad
ron, 1819-23, and on the North Carolina of the
Mediterranean squadron, 1824-27. He was pro
moted lieutenant, March 3, 1827 ; was an officer
on the sloop Falmouth of the West India squad
ron, 1828-30; on the sloop Peacock of the East
India squadron. 1833-34 ; on rendezvous at Balti
more, Md., 1836-37, and on the Brazil squadron,
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where lie commanded the brig Dolphin and the
sloop Fa ir field, 1837-38, and during this service
he relieved an American schooner from the
French blockade at Salado, River Platte. for
which act he received complimentary recogni
tion from the U.S. government. He was on the
Brandijii ine of the Mediterranean squadron, 1841-
42 ; in com
mand of-
the brig
Pioneer on
the coast
Africa
1843,
of the
frigate
THE FRIGATE.
CONST) TUTIO/T
of
in
and
U.S
Const itu-
tion in the
Mexican blockade in 1846. As commander, which
rank he attained March 7, 1849, he was on the re
ceiving-ship Consort at Baltimore, Md., 1850-51,
and the sloop Marion on thecoastof Africa, 1852-
55. As captain, to which rank he was promoted
Jan. 28, 1856, he commanded the frigate St. Law
rence in the blockade of Charleston and the south
ern coast in 1861, and captured and sunk the Con
federate privateer Petrel when just twelve hours
out. He also captured several other prizes and en
gaged his ship in the fight with the Merrimac,
March 9, 1862, and in the attack on Sewall s Point,
Hampden Roads. He was retired Dec. 21, 1861 ;
was promoted commodore on the retired list July
16, 1862 ; served as light-house inspector, 1863-65,
and was promoted rear-admiral on the retired
list Feb. 25, 1881. He died in Baltimore, Md.,
Oct. 21. 1882.
PURVIS, Robert, abolitionist, was born in
Charleston, S.C.. Aug. 4, 1810; son of William
and Harriet (Badaracka) Purvis. His father, a
native of Northumberland, England, was acotton
broker, and an abolitionist. His mother was the
daughter of Baron Judah Badaracka, a German
Jew, and his wife Dida, a Moor and East Indian.
He received a liberal education in Pennsylvania,
completing it at Amherst college. Benjamin
Lundy met him in 1830, and the two began an
antislavery crusade. He was married in 1831 to
Harriet D., daughter of James and Charlotte
Foster. He was one of the sixty founders of the
American Antislavery society at Philadelphia,
Pa., Dec. 4, 1833 ; signed its declaration of senti
ments, and was its vice-president and its last sur
vivor. He was also president of the Pennsylva
nia Antislavery society, and organizer and presi
dent of the so-called underground railroad " in
1838, of which his home was a station, giving his
personal attention to all fugitives en route to
Canada, although often at the peril of his life.
When John G. Whittier was his guest, the two
were mobbed in Pennsylvania Hall. He was inti
mately associated with William Lloyd Garrison,
whom he assisted in establishing and maintain
ing the Liberator, and he labored to have Presi
dent Lincoln place the civil war on an antislavery
basis in 1861. After the proclamation of emanci
pation he became the first vice-president of the
Woman Suffrage society. He was also identi
fied with the temperance cause, the labor move
ment, and the movement to reform political
methods in the city of Philadelphia. He was a
speaker of much force and eloquence and presid
ed at the semi-centennial anniversary of the
American Antislavery society in 1883. He died
in Philadelphia. Pa.. April 15, 1898.
PURYEAR, Bennet, educator, was born in
Mecklenburg county, Va., July 23, 1826; son of
Thomas and Elizabeth (Marshall) Puryear ; grand
son of John and Mary (Hubbard) Puryear. and a
descendant of John and Anne (Bennet) Goode,
who came to Virginia from Berkshire, England,
in 1658, and settled at Whitby on the James,
naming it after the old home in England. He
was graduated with the highest honors at Ran-
dolph-Macon college, A.B., 1847, A.M.. 1850 ;
taught school in Monroe county, Ala., 1847-48;
was tutor in Richmond college, Va., 1850-51 ;
professor of natural sciences, 1851-58, and profes
sor of chemistry and geology at Randolph-Macon
college, 1858-66. He returned to the chair of
natural sciences at Richmond college in 1866 ;
was chairman of the faculty. 1869-75, with the
exception of four years (1885-88) , and professor of
chemistry, 1873-95. The honorary degree of LL.D.
was conferred on him by Georgetown college,
Ky., and by Howard college, Ala., in 1878. He
was married, first, to Virginia C., daughter of
Nathaniel and Sallie (Massie) Raglan d ; and
secondly, to Ella M., daughter of Leroy B. and
Elizabeth (Puryear) Wyles. He is the author of
many educational and political papers, including
those on Tlie Virginia Debt and The Public School
in its Relation to the Negro. In December, 1902,
he was residing in Orange county, near Orange,
C.H., Virginia.
PUTNAM, Albigence Waldo, author, was born
in Belpre, Ohio. March 11, 1799; son of Aaron
Waldo and Charlotte (Loring) Putnam ; grandson
of Israel and Sarah (Waldo) Putnam and of Col.
Daniel Loring of Ohio, and great-grandson of
Gen. Israel Putnam. He engaged in the practice
of law first in Mississippi, and after 1836 in Nash
ville. Tenn. He was president of the Tennessee
Historical society, contributed to its publication,
and is the author of : A History of Middle Ten
nessee (1859) : Life and Times of Gen. James
Robertson (1859), and Life of Gen. John Sevier
in Wheeler s "History of North Carolina." He
died in Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 20, 1869.
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PUTNAM, Alfred Porter, clergyman and
author, was burn at Danvers. Mass., Jan. 10,
1827 ; son of the Hon. Elias and Eunice (Ross)
Putnam ; grandson of Israel and Anna (Endicott)
Putnam, and of Adam Ross of Ipswich, a Bunker
Hill and Revolutionary soldier ; great-grandson
of Capt. Edmund Putnam, who commanded one
of the Danvers-Lexington companies, April 19,
1775, and a descendant of John Putnam, John
Porter, Gov. John Endicott, Maj. William Ha-
thorne, and other leading settlers of Salem Vil
lage, now Danvers. He was a bank clerk in
Danvers ; a book-keeper in a Boston mercantile
house; attended the Pembroke, N.H., Andover,
Mass., and Springfield, Vt., academies; matricu
lated at Dartmouth in 1849, but changed to Brown
in 1850, and was graduated there A.B., 1852, and
from the Harvard Divinity school in 1855,
being sent while a student as delegate from Dan
vers to the first Republican convention in Massa
chusetts, held at Worcester in 1854. He was
appointed to preach by the Boston Association
of Ministers, and was pastor of the Mount Pleas
ant church (Unitarian), Roxbury, 1855-64 ; being
also elected president of the Unitarian Sunday-
school society in 1803. In 1802-63 he traveled
abroad with the Rev. Frederick Frothingliam,
visiting the principal European countries, ascend
ing the Nile for a thousand miles, journeying by
caravan to Mount Sinai, Petra, Mount Hor and
Jerusalem, and sailing from Joppa to Constanti
nople. He was twice married; first, Jan. 10,
1856, to Louise P., daughter of Samuel and
Lydia (Proctor) Preston of Danvers, who died
June 12, 1860 ; and secondly, Dec. 27, 1865, to
Eliza King, daughter of Ephraim and Mary
(King) Buttrick of Cambridge. He was minister
of the First Unitarian church (Church of the
Saviour), Brooklyn, N.Y., 1864-80, and while
there started its flourishing mission school, and
also a third Unitarian church in the city. He
was one of the founders of the Brooklyn Union
for Christian Workers : one of the editors of the
Liberal Christian, a Unitarian weekly ; director,
chairman of the executive committee, correspond
ing secretary, and a life member of the Long
Island Historical society, and after 1886 honorary
member of the Brooklyn New England society.
He visited Europe in 1883 for the benefit of his
health, and in 1886 resigned his pastorate to seek
recovery in the countiy, soon settling in Con
cord, Mass. A year later, he began to preach
in many places and to lecture before various
historical societies, at the Meadville Theological
school and at Tufts college, on subjects relating
to history and hymnology, the Bible, ethnic reli
gions and archaeology. In 1889 he established
the Danvers Historical society, of which he was
chosen president. In 1895 he removed to Danvers,
and in 1897 to Salem, Mass, lie was made an
honorary member of the Pea body and Lexington
historical societies, a member of the American
Historical association, and of several patriotic
and kindred organizations. Brown conferred
upon him the honorary degree of D.D. in 1871.
His bibliography, embracing about fifty titles,
and comprising books, pamphlets, and discourses,
includes the following : Memorial discourses on
Edward Everett (1865), William Lloyd Garrison
(1879), and Abiel Abbot Low (1893): Unitarian-
ism in Brooklyn (1809); The. Unitarian Denomi
nation, Past and Present (1870); Singers and
Songs of the Liberal Faith (1874) ; Christianity
tlie Lair of the Land (1876); Proceedings of the
Brooklyn Celebration of the Hundredth Birthday
of Dr. Charming (edited, 1880) ; ^1 Unitarian
Oberlin (1888) ; Rebecca Nurse and Her Friends
(1892); Old Anti-Slavery Days (1X93); and Gen.
Israel Putnamand Bunker Hill (1901). He is also
the author of many contributions to periodicals,
notably the Danvers Mirror, for which he wrote
(1876-1902) more than one hundred articles, his
torical, biographical, genealogical, and descrip
tive.
PUTNAM, Eben, genealogist, was born in
Salem, Mass., Oct. 10, 1868 ; son of Frederic
Ward and Adelaide Martha (Edmands) Putnam ;
grandson of Eben and Elizabeth (Appleton) Put
nam and of William and Martha Adams (Tapley)
Edmands. He was prepared for college at Cam
bridge high school, but did not matriculate, and
in 1885 entered business life. He was married,
Aug. 17, 1890. to Florence, daughter of Frank
and Elizabeth Tucker of Boston, Mass. He was
manager of the Salem Press, and editor of the
Salem Press Historical Genealogical Record, and
its successors, Putnam s Historical Magazine and
Genealogical Quarterly Magazine. He was busi
ness manager of The International Monthly,
1899-1902, resigning in July, 1902, when he
became president a,nd manager of the Research
Publication company of Boston. He was elected
a member of the Essex Institute and of the New
England Historic Genealogical society, in both of
which societies he was a member of the library
committee; and of the New Brunswick Histori
cal society. He was a founder, secretary and
registrar, and member of the council of the Old
Planters society ; member, secretary, and lieu
tenant-governor of the Society of Colonial Wars
in Vermont, and delegate to its general assembly,
1902 ; librarian of the Vermont Antiquarian
society, 1901-02, chairman of the executive com
mittee, and one of the editors of the Vermont
Antiquarian. He is the author of : History of the
Putnam Family in England and America (1892-
1901); Military and Naval Annals of Danrers
(1895); editor and part author of Osgood Gene-
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alogij (1894) ; and of many genealogical mono
graphs, more or less complete, among which are
the published results of research in England re
garding the origin of the Endicott, Pillsbury,
Purrington, Graves, Streeter, Tapley, and Weare
families, and many articles on records and record
searching, as well as on historical subjects of
local interest.
PUTNAM, Emily James, educator, was born
in Canandaigua, N.Y., April 15, 1865; daughter
of James Cosslett and Emily (Adams) Smith ;
granddaughter of Thomas and Alice (Cosslett)
Smith and of John and Margaret (Hamilton)
Adams, and a descendant of Henry Adams, who
settled at Braintree, Mass., in 1634. Her father
was a justice of the supreme court of the state
of New York. She was graduated at Bryn Mawr
college, Pa., 1889; was a fellow in Greek language
and literature, University of Chicago, 1893-94 ;
studied at Cambridge university, England, 1889-
90, and was dean of Barnard college, Columbia
university. 1894-1900. She resigned from Bar
nard, Feb. 1, 1900. having been married, April 27,
1899, to George Haven Putnam (q.v.). She is
the author of Selections from Lucian (1891).
PUTNAM, Frederic Ward, anthropologist, was
born in Salem, Mass.. April 16, 1839 ; son of Eben
and Elizabeth Appleton Putnam ; grandson of
Eben and Elizabeth (Fiske) Putnam and of
Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Ward) Appleton ; great-
grandson of Joshua
Ward and of John
Fiske, and a descend
ant of John Put
nam, who emigrated
from Aston Abbotts,
Bucks, England, to
Salem, Mass., in 1640.
He received private
preparatory instruc
tion and was grad
uated from the
Lawrence Scientific
school. Harvard, S.B..
1862. Very early in
lire he displayed an
unusual aptness for
the study of natural history, and in 1856 he was
made curator of ornithology of the Essex Insti
tute, Salem, and published his List of the Birds
of Essex County." In this same year he became
a special student of zoology under Louis Agass iz
and was his assistant in charge of the collection
of fishes in the Museum of Comparative Zoology
at Harvard, 1856-64. He was married, first, in
1864, to Adelaide Martha, daughter of William
M. Edmands of Charlestown, Mass., who died in
1879, and secondly, in 1882, to Esther Orne,
daughter of John L. Clarke of Chicago, 111. He
was in charge of the museum of the Essex Insti
tute, Salem, 1864-67 : superintendent of the East
India Marine Society Museum. 1867, and when
the two collections were merged as the Peabody
Academy of Sciences, was made director of
the academy. In 1875 he was made curator of
the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethno
logy at Harvard, and when the Peabody pro
fessorship of American archaeology and ethnology
was established, he was awarded the chair. He
was instructor at the School of Natural History
011 Penikese Island in 1874. and in the same year
was appointed assistant on the Kentucky geolo
gical survey. He was state commissioner of
inland fisheries for Massachusetts, 1882-89, and
chief of the department of ethnology of the
World s Columbian exposition, 1891-94. In 1894
he was appointed curator of anthropology in the
American Museum of Natural History, New York
city. In 1901 the regents of the University of
California appointed him chairman of the
advisory committee on anthropology. In connec
tion with his zoological and anthropological work
he published over 300 papers. He prepared Vol
ume VII of the Reports of the U.S. geological
surveys west of the 100th meridian (archaeology);
and edited, for varying terms, the Proceedings of
the Essex Institute, the Reports of the Peabody
Academy, and the annual volumes of the Amer
ican Association for the Advancement of Science.
He edited the annual reports of the Peabody
Museum as well as all its publications after
1873. He was the originator and editor of the
Naturalists Directory in 1865. and one of the
founders of the American Naturalist in 1867. His
researches in American archaeology began in 1857,
when he examined a shell-heap in Montreal. He
personally explored shell-heaps, burial mounds,
village sites and caves in various parts of North
America, as well as the ancient pueblos and
clitf-houses, and the later geological deposits in
California and in the Delaware Valley in con
nection with the antiquity of man in America.
He directed extensive explorations in the United
States, Mexico, Central and South America. He
served as president of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, of the Boston
Society of Natural History, and of the American
Folk-lore society ; became a fellovv of the National
Academy of Science, the American Philosophical
society, the Massachusetts Historical society, the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the
American Antiquarian society, and the anthro
pological societies of Washington, London, Paris,
and Brussels ; and in 1896 was decorated by the
French government with the Cross of the Legion
of Honor. The University of Pennsylvania gave
him the S.D. degree in 1894 and one of the first
four Drexel gold medals in 1903.
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PUTNAM, George Haven, publisher, was born
in London, England. April 2, 1844 ; son of George
Palmer and Victorine (Haven) Putnam. He
was brought to New York in 184? and was a pupil
in the public and Columbia grammar schools of
New York city ; matriculated at Columbia col
lege in the class of 1864 ; studied in the College
of the Sorbonne, Paris, and the University of
Gottingen, 1861-62, and left German} in August,
1862, to enter the 176th regiment, Ne\v York volun
teers, organized largely by the Young Men s
Christian association. He was promoted ser
geant, lieutenant, quarter-master and adjutant,
and commissioned major ; served in the Red
River campaign in Louisiana ; with Sheridan in
the Shenandoah Valley ; was a prisoner at Libby
and Danville, and with Emory in the last cam
paign in North Carolina. He was deputy col
lector of internal revenues under his father,